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Colorectal is a combination of two words – colon and rectum. Colorectal cancer affects the large bowel, the end portion of the digestive tract which holds the undigested food awaiting to be eliminated.

The colon is about 5 to 6 feet long and 2.5 inches in diameter. The rectum is the last 6 to 8 inches of the colon which ends at the anus.

Diet

A reported released by the American Institute of Cancer ...

1.      About 90% to 95% of primary liver tumours are hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and they arise from the parenchyma cells within the liver.

2.      Cancers that arise from other primary sites (such as colon, rectum, pancreas, breasts, ovaries and stomach) may end up in the liver, giving rise to metastatic liver cancer. Metastatic liver cancer is thirty to forty times more common than HCC.

3.      Liver cancer represents 7.8% of the cancer cases we have seen. It ranked the fourth most ...

Lung cancer has an overall poor prognosis and low survival rate. The expected five-year survival rate in the US is about 15%. Sixty percent of patients die within one year of diagnosis and 80% die within five years.

For those with advanced disease, the median survival is four to six months if untreated, and 10% to 15% will remain alive for one year.

Lung cancer is often diagnosed too late, and it has often spread beyond the chest to other parts of the body ...

Or Where Is The Science?

We would like to recommend that you visit the website put up by

Professor Gershom Zajicek, The Hubert H. Humphrey Center For Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

(http://www.what-is-cancer.com)

The following are some salient points raised by this learned professor.   

What is cancer? 

• Cancer is a systemic disease and its symptom is expressed as a tumor. Removing the tumour is therefore NOT the ultimate solution or cure for cancer. Often the cancer recurs after an apparent ...

 I am convinced that the best protection against evil that lurks among us is information ~ Dr. Julian Whitaker.

Much of the advice given to us, even from some government sources, cannot be regarded as reliable, because of the overwhelming influence of vested-interest groups. We must, therefore, rely on ourselves and our own efforts to safeguarding our health ~ Professor Jane Plant.

 There is no one correct treatment for cancer.

• Therefore you need correct and truthful information for you to decide what to ...

Be your own doctor first 

The above statement in not from CA Care! It is from Dr. Agus in his book below (pg. 66).

Dr. Agus is no ordinary cancer doctor. He is one of the world’s leading cancer doctors and pioneering biomedical researchers. He is professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering. His obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his ...

Almost every day I receive e-mails from cancer patients or their loved ones seeking information on how to manage their cancer. There is no way I can answer such queries by writing e-mails. I need to write a book! So here it is Cancer – What Now?

I have tried to answer in detail most of the questions that cancer patients are looking for – What to do ...

The standard recipe of present day cancer treatments comes in different combinations of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and oral drugs of some sort. This is sometimes referred to as slash, poison and burn method of treatment. Many people say the treatment is worse than the disease and many patients died because of the treatment rather than their cancer. Some authors even went to the extent of saying that present day cancer treatment with highly toxic drugs is crude and is probably ...